Ongoing activities

The projects below are those which require very little – or no – work to maintain, or are those projects that I do aim to return to, but have yet to set as a priority.

skwrt

The main reason skwrt isn’t a priority project is simply that I don’t *yet* possess the technical knowledge around bluetooth beacons and the LoRaWan network used in smart city projects.

Whilst I’ve retired the website, it remains a project that I feel has merit. I may pursue the MVP using UpWork or similar, but that still demands a commitment of time to spec, and manage, regardless of that first step having a relatively small footprint in terms of time to produce.

The following page provides a quick introduction to skwrt. Broadly, it revolves around a simple, timely method for letting people know about local events.

2017 update: The perhaps more interesting use for this concept is in the area of news delivery, a project I’m provisionally calling NewsTooth. This was one of two concepts I had accepted for long-listing under the 2017 Walkley Media Innovation and Incubation Fund.

KD Shirts

At over 1000 designs, each available on more than 10 different products, this has been no mean feat to produce, regardless of the fact that it’s been spread over my spare time.

The design component was deliberately minimised, aiming for simplicity and text- and slogan-based designs, in pursuit of simple 80/20 numbers (although, in the POD space, this number really is more like 99/1).

A step on from the two shops listed below, with slightly higher design-values, and a different focus.

Whilst it’s worth mentioning that overall design value lifted over time, the market I aimed at with wdty wasn’t high-paying and therefore demanding of sophistication; these were intended to be shirts that don’t cost much, and which therefore didn’t demand serious time to produce. They were also quite obviously aimed at wearers with a particular attitude.